Working document
The weekly CSA box plan and member note template
One page per week that carries your availability list, the box plan for every variant, the substitution you made, and the note that goes to members before harvest starts.
Free resources
Free resources for CSA farms and market growers
Everything here is built for a farm that plans a weekly box against what the field can actually deliver, and none of it requires an account to use.
A CSA farm runs on a handful of repeating decisions: what the field can supply this week, what goes in the box, what to say when a crop fails, and whether the numbers behind all of it still work. The resources on this page each take one of those decisions and give you something usable, whether that is a figure you can calculate in thirty seconds or a page you can print and hand to the crew.
The comparison pages are written to be fair to the other tools, because a farm selling meat, flowers, and wholesale alongside a share genuinely needs different software than a farm running one hundred and twenty vegetable shares off two pickup days. Read those first if you are still deciding. Read the calculators and the weekly template first if you already know how you sell and just want the week to run better.
Free tools
Calculators for CSA share pricing and harvest day
Both tools run in your browser, take numbers you already know from your own farm records, and give you a figure you can defend to a partner or a lender.
Comparisons
How CropShareBox compares with other CSA software
Most farms end up choosing between a storefront that sells shares, a platform that lets members customize, and a planner that starts from what is ready to cut.
Main guide
How to Build a 22 Week CSA Share Calendar From Seeding Dates
It settles how to turn frost dates, days to maturity, and succession spacing into a twenty two week share calendar your field can actually deliver.
Magazine
The Weekly Share
Reporting on the craft, economics, and rules of small CSA farming, from the harvest list to the last box on the pickup table.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes these guides, the CSA pack out mornings and availability lists behind them, and how the comparisons and calculators here are put together.
All of it free, and it stays that way
The calculators, the weekly box plan template, and the comparison pages need no account and will still be here next season. When the printed sheet on the cooler door starts falling behind your member count, a demo takes about thirty minutes and picks up exactly where the paper leaves off.